people of britain ,your oppinions please?

Question

A total of £36 million has been paid out to failed asylum seekers to enable them to set up businesses back in their own countries, it was reported.
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More than 23,000 migrants have received payments of up to £4,000 each under the Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme since it was set up in 1999, said The Sunday Telegraph.

It let them set up businesses from market stalls to clothes factories in countries as diverse as South Africa, China and Colombia, the newspaper said.

The details were contained in documents from the Geneva-based International Organisation for Migration, which administers the scheme on behalf of the UK Government.

The Home Office said that the programme - which is part-funded by the EU - offered good value for money compared to forcible returns, which cost £11,000 for each failed asylum seeker.

"Last year we removed more failed asylum seekers than ever before. We will not hesitate to use enforced returns, but when we can spare British taxpayers the £11,000 these each cost, we will," a spokesman said.

"Repatriation assistance isn't new and frees up money to hire more immigration officers."

However, the payments were condemned by shadow home secretary David Davis, who told the newspaper: "Now the price of the Government's failure to secure our borders is all too clear.

"Given their inability to deport illegal immigrants, they have had to resort to bribing them to leave - with the taxpayer picking up the bill."

The disclosure comes as the Government is preparing next week to announce new curbs on foreign visitors from outside the European Union coming to Britain.

Answer 1

AMAZING Robert C has got to bring it down all the time doesn't matter it's facts.I went to the jobcentre a couple of weeks ago enquiring about help for starting a business.They will help with benefit for 6 months whilst you get a business off the ground.To qualify for this you have to be unemployed for eighteen months,have a history of drug abuse,be an alcoholic or have a gambling habit.Now i don't wish to sound like a "racist bigot"but i think Robert has 4 letters missing stupid UNT

Answer 2

How does looking into the 11,000 or so non-EU people coming to Britain make a dent in the 300,000+ coming in .... 11,000 or so (currently ... that figure is bound to go up again) who are allegedly illegal from the EU ?

Means-testing, otherwise borders shut ... Enough is enough. We are a densely populated country as it is, the reduction in our low skilled labour cost does not balance against the cost to our public services, even without this news of yet another obvious problem of opening borders. If that means leaving the EU to their own mess ... so be it. If this money was spent in boosting our own potential, rather than watering it down and boosting the potential of the EU itself, our economy would profit.

I am sure most other "States" of the EU agree, as has been shown in those referendums that were actually allowed ...

It seems to me like someone is trying to make all equal, like robots, a race of non-national, non-competitive people ... while all the time business is having to do the complete opposite. As nice as this EU ideal may be, to do that means to make an average of all. Is that the way to ensure progression ? By reducing the potential of all for the sake of a short-term ideal ?

Btw Rob C ... Apathy is everything yes ?

Answer 3

each and all the judges have valid factors, Simon is astounding as he's honest with each physique and each in specific situations the certainty can harm. I hate that Amanda would be so perverted in the direction of Strike because of the fact they are topless, and that i in my view extremely extremely hate that Piers will become a ghetto boy whilst Nemesis carry out. Its bloody embarrassing!!

Answer 4

If we weren't paying for asylum seekers to go home and set up their own business it would be something else as long as it is helping someone have a chance at a better life it's better than paying for junkies to stay home on the dole

Answer 5

This country could not organise a p!ss up in a brewery.
The Victorians were great.
Good help us.
Send all immigrants to Scotland seeing that our Scottish PM thinks they are so great for the economy.

Answer 6

Dont tell me, you read the telegraph? Read a book or two, get out more mate, meet some new people, change your social circle. Why not invite these scary asylum seekers for dinner one time. Maybe a chance to get over your fears?

Answer 7

This appears to be a common thread of the day. So many people asking the same questions. It beggars belief!

Answer 8

If you print out your question, cut up the words, and glue them onto a piece of paper in a different order, then you can make something beautiful out of this mess.

Answer 9

" The immigration laws of this country are a sham , like the pollutions running it , no matter what there views are , as they all say one thing and mean another , they are versed at lying "

Answer 10

I blame it all on the channel tunnel , we wouldn't be in this mess if we were still a proper island. The sea was our best defence against the invaders!